New Year.... New Me.....ooooor not

I know I did this as a Facebook post on January 1st, but I've been seeing a lot of New Years Resolutions and meme's about it and it got me thinking more about them.

I don't typically make new year resolutions, but sometimes I'll do goals. This year, I want to be able to cook more than the same things over and over. I'm not comfortable in the kitchen cooking like I am baking. I'll damn near try to bake anything if I have a reason to. But cooking, I always seem to fall back on the same easy recipes that I've made a thousand times before.

.....but I digress.

This year, I didn't make any resolutions. I don't really believe in them. If I did, it would be the same one over and over; to just be better than I was the year before. Not in any specific way either. Just as a person, all around. There definitely needs to be more kindness in the world, and that wont happen if people just don't start to try.

I see a lot of big, long posts about people making a huge deal out of what their resolutions are. I have found that (sometimes) the people that make the biggest deal out of them are often the ones that don't put their money where their mouth is. Over the years, I've seen these big posts, then as the year goes on, nothing ever seems to change. The ones that say they wont air their dirty laundry on Facebook still do with alarmingly increasing rates. The ones that say they wont badmouth people often are the first to point out flaws.....the list goes on.

New Year Resolutions seem to be a popular thing to make, but not a popular thing to actually strive to achieve. I don't want my kids to grow up thinking it's cooler to make the resolutions/goals than it is to actually achieve them. That's not what they're supposed to be about.

If you want to make a resolution, awesome! I am all for that!! Go team!! But please don't be the person that makes a huge deal about all the better you're going to do then just do nothing. It is the most anticlimactic thing and it's pretty sad if you think about it.

My favorite quote is "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" by Lao Tzu. I have referenced this quote many times, and I'm sure I will keep doing it. You cant achieve anything, big or, if you don't take that first step. 

So you want to resolve yourself to something. Amazing, more power to you....let's see that first step!